US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Secure document transfer" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,257, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Secure document transfer" was invented by Nicholas J. Shearer (London), Sunil Nair (Fremont, Calif.), Felix-Johannes A. Visee (London), Eric K. Kimn (Cupertino, Calif.) and Salma Elshatanoufy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After NFC transaction information is sent from the first device to the second device via the NFC protocol, the second device sends the NFC transaction information to the third-party. Both the first device and the third-party compute the same transaction identifier utilizing the NFC transaction information, and both the first ...